Urshilikai

I would say the only major improvement has been with not managing those goddam backpacks lol. Having to take it off to access it and everything...

More than anything I like the idea of DayZ. An item-hunt for survival from both other players and from zombies that mimics a real post-apocalyptic situation. And I'm still glad my money went to support the development of what hopefully will be a good game. Unfortunately I feel like almost all of the bad elements that were present in Arma have been carried over to varying degrees. Let's go through them. 1. Head bobbing. Myself and a large percentage of the gaming community gets headaches/motion sickness from this. If you don't turn it off by default or give us an option to, it's unplayable for us. Even the minor head movement while standing still got on my nerves because I was trying to watch which direction the moon was going (rising or setting) but couldn't track the pixels because of the breathing animation when standing still (through a scope I could believe it, but just standing around really?). Please at least add an option to remove all head bobb animations and breathing movements outside of a scope. 2. Movement mechanics. I have to say this is probably the worst element brought over from Arma. The controls feel "sticky". My character doesn't move responsively to my input commands: he has a very long acceleration time, a forced maximum rotation speed. This is a tax on time, literally. It drives a wedge between my real time interaction with a mouse/keyboard and what my character is able to do in the game. The single best thing you could do after removing head bobbing is to make the game as responsive as something like L4D, or CS, or any number of other fast paced FPS games where my inputs actually register reproducibly and responsively. It does not mimic realism, it does not increase difficulty, it does not improve the game. It is simply a tax on time. 3. Inventory mechanics. While this has been significantly improved upon from the inventory system of Arma (christ was that a frustrating system), it still has a long way to go to be fluid. First and foremost, switching weapons needs to be more fluid (think half life); having a lag time for pulling it from your backpack is fine, the controls for doing so just need to be more responsive. Little things like having to drag items you want to drop to the 1-9 bar first, then drop them should be priority. The item loot system is still just as laggy as in Arma. I want to see the inventory as soon as I activate an item or corpse, not after a lengthy crouching animation (since when can human beings not pick up something off the ground mid stride? maybe for a corpse I could believe having to search it.) Also please make the the activate toggle button something other than middle mouse button... 4. Complexity vs Streamlined. This is something the devs obviously need to work out on their own for what kind of game they can reasonably finish on the time-scales they have. What I'm talking about here is does the flashlight really "need" a battery? Is that an unecessarily complex mechanic that is frustrating, increases development time and adds little to the game? I would argue yes, and several other mechanics of the game leave me scratching my head about why they are so unecessarily complex when there is no real function behind it. I'm not saying this game should be modeled after Nether, but there are a few things that Nether did right... or at least better than what DayZ currently offers.